Norway Killer Breivik Says He "Trained On Videogames"

"For practice."

Peter Chapman, 5 years ago, 54 comments.

CNN is reporting that Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway last Summer, “trained” using videogames, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in particular.

The Norwegian, who has admitted to the murders and claims that he murdered his victims “to fight multiculturalism” also apparently played World of Warcraft for up to 16 hours a day, which doesn’t leave much time for anything else.

The article goes into depth about his apparent motives and actions, but doesn’t dwell or expand further on the headline.

If someone actually manages to convince themselves that any video game was even partially responsible for his terrorist-actions, they are either outright stupid or they have no knowledge on either subject.

Having read the opening paragraph only of the linked article, it seems the BBC are intentionally over-emphasizing this silly little note of Breivik to appeal to the apparent ever videogame-hostile Britain.

The opinions I’ve read on this in Norwegian media are all dismissing this as just another unrealistic and childish idea of Breivik, which really should be obvious if you follow the case. It’s just nonsense really.

And the “blame video games” story continues.
Personally I’m tempted to chuck a load of bananas at other drivers on my trip home tonight and then blame it on the huge amount of Mario Kart 7 I’ve played this week

Yet another unstable madman leaves this world and video games will be blamed for the chaos he left behind. People have to have a screw loose in the first place to want to replicate anything in a video game but nooooooooooo, it’s obviously the games that drive people mad.

He lived with his mum and played video games almost all day until he he became radicalised and began planing the attack, considering he is sane dispite what the Norwegian government would want you to believe he probably wasn’t using them as serious “training”.

@hazelam – what about the number of times he’s wiped out humanity, save a few special people, for not doing what they were told…..I’d like to know what his excuse was for that – and he can’t blame video games either as it was before they existed.

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